For each of the past five years I have edited a year’s best anthology of one kind or another. One of the jobs that has fallen to me, as part of assembling a selection of the best stories of the year, is to find those stories. They appear in the darndest places, but one of the more common places is in original anthologies. A reader recently highlighted to me that some of those original anthologies can be very hard to find, which made me think it might be worth adding a publicly accessible list of all of the original anthologies that I’ve been able to find. And that’s why this page exists. Here I’ll be listing original science fiction, fantasy, horror and related anthologies that will be published between 1 January 2008 and 31 December 2008. I’ll do everything I can to be as inclusive and all-encompassing as possible.

Publishers/editors: If you have an original anthology scheduled, please drop me an email. I don’t need a lot of information. Just a title, editor, and publication date. I’m happy to link to what information you have, and will provide links to amazon.com etc.

Title Editor(s) Pub. Date Publisher
Seeds of Change John Joseph Adams August Prime
What You Can’t See Anonymous January Pocket
Clockwork Phoenix: Tales of Beauty and Strangeness Mike Allen July Norilana
Fast Forward 2 Lou Anders October Pyr
Sideways in Crime Lou Anders June Solaris
Magic in the Mirrorstone: Tales of Fantasy Steve Berman February Mirrorstone
A Field Guide to Surreal Botany Janet Chui & Jason Erik Lundberg mid 08 Two Cranes Press
We Think, Therefore We Are Peter Crowther tbc DAW Books
Dreaming Again: Thirty-five New Stories Celebrating the Wild Side of Australian Fiction Jack Dann June HarperCollins Australia
The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy Ellen Datlow April Del Rey
Tesseracts Eleven Cory Doctorow & Holly Phillips Late 07 Edge
Galactic Empires Gardner Dozois January SF Book Club
My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon P.N. Elrod January St Martin’s Griffin
The Grantville Gazette IV Eric Flint June Baen
Ring of Fire II Eric Flint January Baen
The Dragon Done It Eric Flint & Mike Resnick March Baen
Canterbury 2100 Dirk Flinthart April Agog Press
Catopolis Martin H. Greenberg & Janet Deaver-Pack December DAW Books
Future Americas Martin H. Greenberg & John Helfers June DAW Books
Fellowship Fantastic Martin H. Greenberg & Kerrie Hughes January DAW Books
The Dimension Next Door Martin H. Greenberg & Kerrie Hughes July DAW Books
Something Magic this Way Comes Martin H. Greenberg & Sarah Hoyt March DAW Books
Better Off Undead Martin H. Greenberg & Daniel M. Hoyt November DAW Books
Mystery Date Denise Little February DAW Books
Extraordinary Engines Nick Gevers Fall Solaris
Misspelled Julie E. Czerneda April DAW Books
Front Lines Denise Little May DAW Books
Enchantment Place Denise Little August DAW Books
A Book of Wizards Marvin Kaye April SF Book Club
2012 Alisa Krasnostein & Ben Payne April Twelfth Planet Press
Hotter Than Hell Kim Harrison June HarperTorch
Love is Hell Farrin Jacobs September Harper Collins USA
Warrior Wisewoman Roby James June Norilana Books
Polyphony 7 Deborah Layne & Forrest Aguirre August Wheatland Press
Tales of the Shadowmen 4: Lords of Terror Jean-Marc Lofficier & Randy Lofficier January Black Coat Press
The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction: Volume 2 George Mann March Solaris
Wild Cards: Inside Straight George R.R. Martin January Tor
Firebirds Soaring Sharyn November October Firebird
Desolate Places Eric T. Reynolds, Adam Nakama February 2008 Hadley Rille Books
Ruins Metropolis Eric T. Reynolds Spring 2008 Hadley Rille Books
Barren Worlds Eric T. Reynolds, Adam Nakama Spring 2008 Hadley Rille Books
Global Warming Aftermaths Eric T. Reynolds Summer 2008 Hadley Rille Books
Return to Luna Eric T. Reynolds Fall 2008 Hadley Rille Books
Paper Cities Ekaterina Sedia April Senses Five Press
Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy William K. Schafer July Subterranean Press
Ages of Wonder Rob St. Martin and Julie Czerneda. late 2008 DAW Books
Eclipse 2 Jonathan Strahan October Night Shade
Godlike Machines Jonathan Strahan October SF Book Club
The Starry Rift Jonathan Strahan April Viking
Transhuman Mark L. Van Name & T. K. F. Weisskopf February Baen
Fast Ships, Black Sails Jeff VanderMeer & Ann VanderMeer October Night Shade
Swords and Sorceress XXIII Elisabeth Waters November Norilana Books
Celebration Ian Whates March Newcon Press
Myth-Understandings Ian Whates March Newcon Press